Author : Christian Y. Gonzalez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Access to Capital
ISBN :
Recent experiences in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
Author : Eduardo Wiesner Durán
Publisher : Idb
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This text helps Latin American policymakers meet the challenge of decentralization to improve public sector performance at all levels of government by appropriately assigning jurisdiction over public goods, services, tax authority and user charges.
Author : Eduardo Lora
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 31,37 MB
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821365762
Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
Author : Guillermo E. Perry
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2007-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821370855
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects of fiscal policy on growth and on macroeconomic volatility over the cycle. Important issues such as the composition of public expenditures (and its effects on growth), the ability of fiscal policy to stabilize cyclical fluctuations, and the currency composition of public debt were largely neglected. As a result, fiscal policy has often amplified cyclical volatility and dampened growth. 'Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth' explores the conduct of fiscal policy in Latin America and its consequences for macroeconomic stability and long-term growth. In particular, the book highlights the procyclical and anti-investment biases embedded in the region's fiscal policies, explores their causes and macroeconomic consequences, and asesses their possible solutions.
Author : Giorgio Brosio
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781006252
'This volume provides a splendid and wide-ranging collection of studies analyzing the political-economy of decentralization in Latin-America. It's a fascinating story with numerous and profound insights into how fiscal decentralization actually works in the context of a variety of fiscal institutions and in a setting with a high degree of inequality in the distribution of income and territorial disparities.' - Wallace E. Oates, University of Maryland, US
Author : Gregory K. Ingram
Publisher : Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781558442085
"Proceedings of the 2009 Land Policy Conference."--Cover.
Author : Vicente Fretes Cibils
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597822124
This book analyzes the reasons for lackluster performance selected Latin American countries in mobilizing subnational own-source revenues and explores policy options to increase these revenues as efficiently and equitably as possible. Seven case studies--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela--span a wide range of characteristics, including federal and unitary countries, different geographical sizes, levels of economic development, and degrees of revenue decentralization. In this book, subnational governments include both intermediate and local levels of government, which are distinguished in the case studies. Together, the case studies provide a reasonably representative picture of the challenges faced throughout Latin America in mobilizing subnational own-source revenues in a manner that supports equitable growth.
Author : Robin W. Boadway
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821364936
The design of intergovernmental fiscal transfers has a strong bearing on efficiency and equity of public service provision and accountable local governance. This book provides a comprehensive one-stop window/source of materials to guide practitioners and scholars on design and worldwide practices in intergovernmental fiscal transfers and their implications for efficiency, and equity in public services provision as well as accountable governance.
Author : Alejandro Izquierdo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781597823302
Author : Steven Benjamin Webb
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Local finance
ISBN :
